Observed arrival · 2026-09-15
WTF Is Heating My Mac?
A Mac menu-bar utility that traces resource-hungry background processes to AI coding tools and lets you stop selected work.
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The utility watches local applications and background programs, then tries to associate them with a project and the AI tool that launched them. Its current download is version 1.0.11, a 1.6 MB signed and notarized package for Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 26 or later. The page names Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode among its supported local workflows, while noting that cloud tasks and browser chats remain outside its view.
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